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11 March to 2 May 2010
from 14 to 18 April
from 1.00pm to 10.00pm The entrance ticket to the Saloni also covers free entry to the four Historic House Museums from 14 to 19 April from 19 April to 2 May Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, via Gesù 5 Tuesday to Sunday from 1.00pm to 5.45pm (closed on Monday, except 19 April) Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano, via G. Jan 15
Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00am to 6.00pm (closed on Monday) Villa Necchi Campiglio, via Mozart 14 Wednesday to Sunday from 10.00am to 6.00pm (closed on Monday, Tuesday advance group bookings only) Museo Poldi Pezzoli, via Manzoni 12
Wednesday to Monday from 10.00am to 6.00pm (closed on Tuesday) To access all the four museums involved in the exhibition, visitors can purchase the Case Museo Card at a cost of 15 euros.Valid for 1 year, the card allows the holder one admission to each of the four Historic House Museums.
The carefully calibrated installation, designed with a delicate touch that is almost imperceptible, results in a surprising and spontaneous whole. The aim of the show is to provoke a dialogue between the signifiers of our own time and those of past epochs, offering the possibility of a parallel reading of the high craftsmanship of the past and the equally masterful techniques of contemporary industrial production.
Curated by Beppe Finessi and collaborator Cristina Miglio, with coordinated image by Italo Lupi, the exhibition juxtaposes contemporary design, by nature projected toward the future, with the rich and unique history of the four house museums, generating a fascinating interpenetration of present and past that combines historic works of art, the splendid spaces that contain them and the way of life they represent, composed over centuries by the original inhabitants and their
heirs, with the signature objects of our own time. More than 200 works of contemporary design will be set in the evocative atmospheres of the four historic houses, ranging from housewares to furniture, which together represent the best of the design of the new millennium. In selecting the objects for the exhibition, the curators saw certain common features of recent design emerge: on the one hand, a significant expansion of the product categories addressed by designers (carpets, stools, tableware, luggage, watches, etc) with respect to the past preference for designing only chairs and lamps; on the other hand, the tendency toward an elaborate, more decorative imagery attuned to the evolutions of fashion and the oscillations of taste. This gives rise to the use of new materials and technologies that lead to experimentation that was unthinkable only a few years ago. Among the designers of the works on display are Ron Arad, Tord Boontje, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Andrea Branzi, Fernando & Humberto Campana, David Chipperfield, Konstantin Grcic, Herzog & De Meuron, Alessandro Mendini, Jasper Morrison, Fabio Novembre, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck and Patricia Urquiola. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue edited by curator Beppe Finessi, with graphic design by Italo Lupi, and features images of the contemporary design objects in situ in the four historic houses. It also contains essays by critics such as Giampiero Bosoni and prominent designers like Alessandro Mendini, as well as a complete annotated listing of the individual The exhibition was realized with funding from: Cosmit and the Fondazione Cariplo. |
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